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			<p>Day 00550: Wednesday, 2016 September 07</p>
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<p>
	Current countdowns:
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	<li>20 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>12 days until mobile voice/<abbr title="Short Message Service">SMS</abbr> service with my current carrier ends</li>
	<li>42 days until mobile data service with my current carrier ends</li>
	<li>39 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
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	The University of the People support team&apos;s solution to the social network issue was to try another Web browser.
	That&apos;s always a bad solution, and when it works, it means that your website is built in a very hacky way.
	I tried it though, with two other Web browsers, and it did not fix the issue.
	I sent them a screenshot of each, as well as the same screenshot that I gave them yesterday.
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	I technically finished my schoolwork for the week yesterday, but I ended up making a couple extra posts today as well.
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	Our culture is very much corporate-driven, and I don&apos;t see that changing in the near future.
	However, if we can tackle the *greed* issue ...
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	We don&apos;t need to try to halt business.
	We just need new laws in place to protect the little guys from excessive, greed-driven profits.
	Business should prosper, but not at the expense of the majority of people.
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	Many schools do have educational criteria that they look for in students.
	To an extent, it can be thought that this criteria is used to weed out those that aren&apos;t there to learn what you have to teach, but in reality, there&apos;s no way to know if a student is actually ready to learn or not.
	Students don&apos;t all come from the same background or have the same opportunities.
	At one university that I tried to get into, it was required that students already have college-level, foreign language credits.
	So to get into the university, I had to have already been to a university.
	Some of the admission criteria is kind of crazy! Grades-based criteria can also be a bit misleading, but at least it&apos;s a much better indication than requiring college courses before attending college.
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	Students also have criteria that the look for in a school when they are making their educational decisions.
	For example, my sibling was the one that showed me University of the People to start with, but they&apos;re not attending this school.
	This place doesn&apos;t have the major that they&apos;re after, so they&apos;re studying elsewhere.
	Still others view the exclusiveness and barrier to entry of other schools as prestige.
	They think that by attending a school that doesn&apos;t spread education to the masses, they are somehow better for it.
	In the old days, maybe such schools actually did provide a better education, though with the rise of the Internet and globally-accessible information, anyone can learn about almost anything.
	Such schools keep people out, but getting into such schools is no longer as important as it once might have been.
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	I started working on my <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> again and found some bad news.
	The <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>1-defined properties cannot be set to <code>inherit</code>! I have to choose between preventing nested elements from inheriting properties from parent elements or give up on reseting the default browser-specific styles set by Web browsers.
	Obviously, the latter isn&apos;t an option.
	Luckily, I&apos;m working my way up through the <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> standard, and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>2 added the <code>inherit</code> value.
	I&apos;ll try <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>3 next, but it&apos;s defined in a modular way, unlike <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>1 and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>2, so I suspect that it&apos;ll be harder to find all of the correct properties that I need.
	The modularity is great for implementing in Web browser and for updating the specification, but not so great for trying to make a list of all official <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> properties.
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	<a href="http://professorshyguy.com/">Professor Shyguy</a> has started a funding campaign like <a href="https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/">Marc With a C</a>, but again, it&apos;s on Patreon.
	Patreon still hasn&apos;t gotten back to me about their annoying login page bug.
	Speaking of Shyguy&apos;s campaign, in the Shyguy&apos;s list of possible intensives for funding them, they list:
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	f) 30 minute personal Skype (or some less terrible program) where we chat, or I show you stuff I&apos;m working on, talk about board games.
	 Something.
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	Ha! That&apos;s awesome.
	Someone that uses Skype is admitting that it&apos;s a terrible program.
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	My mother said that their interview in Hollie went well.
	They seemed to fit in well with the interviewers, and now they really want this job.
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